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New York Senate Judiciary Committee
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committee members
Jamaal Bailey (D)
Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick (R)
Jeremy Cooney (D)
Andrew Gounardes (D)
Chair
Brad Hoylman (D)
Andrew Lanza (R)
John Liu (D)
Jack Martins (R)
Shelley Mayer (D)
Zellnor Myrie (D)
Tom O'Mara (R)
Ranking Republican Member
Tony Palumbo (R)
Kevin Parker (D)
Jessica Ramos (D)
Steve Rhoads (R)
Sean Ryan (D)
Luis Sepúlveda (D)
James Skoufis (D)
Toby Stavisky (D)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| A00056 | Prohibits residential landlords from charging tenants a fee for a dishonored rent check in excess of the actual costs or fees incurred by such landlord as a result thereof, provided such dishonored check fee was included in the initial lease. | Passed | 04/02/2025 |
| A00057 | Relates to action arising out of consumer debt; defines consumer debt and replaces consumer credit transaction with such term. | Crossed Over | 05/28/2025 |
| A01219 | Requires disclosure of possible conflicts; provides for the vacating of an arbitration award on the ground that the arbitrator was affiliated in any way with any party, or has a financial interest directly or indirectly in any party or in the outcome of the arbitration. | Crossed Over | 03/19/2025 |
| A01820 | Requires the modification of restrictive covenants prior to the sale of real property when covenants, conditions and restrictions exist which discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, familial status, marital status, disability, national origin, source of income or ancestry. | Crossed Over | 04/02/2025 |
| A01865 | Prohibits landlords from restricting the installation of appliances or fixtures by tenants; provides that the landlord is not compelled to change utilities for such installation; prohibits surcharge where tenant pays utilities directly to provider; requires a tenant restore appliances or fixtures to the condition they were prior to being installed or allowing such appliances or fixtures remain in the rental unit at no cost to the landlord; defines "appliances or fixtures". | Crossed Over | 05/13/2025 |
| A01890 | Enacts the low impact landscaping rights act, preventing homeowners' associations from adopting or enforcing any rules or regulations that would effectively prohibit, or impose unreasonable limitations on, the installation or maintenance of low impact landscaping. | Passed | 05/28/2025 |
| A02739 | Requires a mortgagee to accept and apply payments. | Crossed Over | 05/29/2025 |
| A03470 | Requires notice to be provided ninety days prior to commencement of a foreclosure action by a homeowners' association or condominium board to enforce a lien for unpaid common charges, assessments, fines or fees. | Passed | 05/21/2025 |
| A06556 | Includes consideration of evidence of recent acts of aggravated cruelty to animals as a factor to be considered when determining whether grounds for a temporary extreme risk protection order exist. | Passed | 04/01/2025 |
| A07454 | Relates to the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Essex County. | Crossed Over | 05/27/2025 |
| A08298 | Relates to the time limit for appeals in all categories of family court cases and the filing of objections to support magistrate determinations in child support, paternity and parentage proceedings in family court. | Crossed Over | 05/27/2025 |
| S00048 | Amends the constitution to prohibit an immediate vote from being called by the governor or acting governor on any budget bills. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00071 | Requires residential real property managers or any firm employing a property manager, contracting with a property manager or contracting to provide a property manager to file a registration statement with the secretary of state and to be certified from an approved certifying organization. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00086 | Requires disclosure of possible conflicts; provides for the vacating of an arbitration award on the ground that the arbitrator was affiliated in any way with any party, or has a financial interest directly or indirectly in any party or in the outcome of the arbitration. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00109 | Prohibits persons convicted of murder or sentenced to life without parole or where the defendant acting either alone or with one or more other persons, commits or attempts to commit robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson, rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse, escape in the first degree, or escape in the second degree, and, in the course of and in furtherance of such crime or of immediate flight therefrom, such | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00124 | Establishes a housing court for actions and proceedings involving the enforcement of state and local laws for the establishment and maintenance of housing standards; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00148 | Requires reduction of a parent's child support obligation by the amount of social security dependent benefits received by the child. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00160 | Relates to authorizing voting by incarcerated people. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00233 | Prohibits the passage of bills by the legislature between the hours of midnight and eight o'clock a.m. unless 2/3 of the legislature is present; requires two-thirds approval for messages of necessity. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00237 | Allows for online publication of public notices. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00245 | Authorizes expedited settlement conference processes for establishing child support orders where both parties voluntarily agree on the process. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00260 | Relates to extreme risk protection orders; defines "exception"; authorizes a police officer or district attorney to file an application for an extreme risk protection order if found that a person meets the requirements of an exception pursuant to section 6340 of the civil practice law and rules; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00338 | Requires certain civil court documents to be provided to parties in their native language; requires parties to demonstrate their understanding of the nature and effect of such documents. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00401 | Establishes the "tenant opportunity to purchase act"; prevents the displacement of middle and lower-income tenants in New York and preserves affordable housing by providing an opportunity for tenants to own or remain renters in the properties in which they reside. | In Committee | 05/28/2025 |
| S00410 | Provides that the court shall not reduce jury awards as excessive in employment discrimination actions unless the court finds exceptional circumstances which compel the conclusion that the jury was influenced by partiality, prejudice, mistake or corruption. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S00413 | Makes the release of any claim by an employee, or independent contractor who is a natural person, against an employer, unenforceable if, as a condition of such resolution, the employee or independent contractor is prohibited from applying for, accepting, or engaging in future employment with such employer, or any entity or entities related to such employer. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S00421 | Requires landlords to mitigate damages when commercial tenants vacate premises in violation of the terms of the lease. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00450 | Prohibits landlords from including incorrect information relating to rent decontrol in certain leases and renewals thereof; imposes a violation punishable by a fine of $1000 for a violation by a landlord; requires the standardization of certain notices pertaining to units subject to the Affordable New York Housing Program. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S00462 | Relates to audio-visual coverage of judicial proceedings by the media; allows the judge or justice presiding over a proceeding to exercise discretion to prohibit or limit filming or photographing of particular participants; defines terms; provides limitations on audio-visual coverage. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S00463 | Prohibits the knowing and reckless promotion of unlawful or false material; provides remedies for the violation of such prohibition. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00475 | Provides for the recall power of the electors to remove an elective officer. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00492 | Requires judges or justices in a court that exercises criminal jurisdiction, including town and village justices, family court judges, and justices of the supreme court who regularly handle matrimonial matters, and court clerks of such courts to attend a program approved by the chief administrator of the courts addressing issues relating to domestic violence totaling at least ten hours every two years; requires law enforcement officers to complete ten hours of domestic violence training every tw | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00508 | Requires the court of appeals to provide copies of appellate briefs to any person upon request. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00530 | Limits the power of the legislature to amend a redistricting plan submitted by the independent redistricting commission where it affects more than two percent of the population of any district contained in such plan. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00545 | Relates to the duties of skiers and ski area operators regarding the use of helmets; requires skiers under age 14 to wear helmets; requires ski area operators to maintain an adequate supply of helmets for sale and rental; requires operators to post signs. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00548 | Authorizes the state to convey certain forest preserve land; provides such sale shall be subject to legislative approval and the proceeds of such conveyance shall be used for acquisitions to the forest preserve. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S00549 | Provides for the establishment of a separate office of family court judge for the county of Essex. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00571 | Prohibits landlords, lessors, sub-lessors and grantors from demanding brokers' fees from a tenant. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00605 | Prohibits the recording of conveyances suspected of being fraudulent; requires the clerk or registrar to report transactions believed to be or suspected of being fraudulent to the office of the attorney general and to local law enforcement or sheriff's office. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00656 | Requires access to new homes by persons with disabilities. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00689 | Provides that the existence of an infestation of pests in a premises occupied for dwelling purposes is a breach of the warranty of habitability, and requires a landlord to keep premises occupied for dwelling purposes free from an infestation of pests, prevent the reasonably foreseeable occurrence of such a condition and expeditiously remediate such condition and any underlying defect. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00711 | Provides that no bill which increases, extends, imposes or revives any tax, fee, assessment, surcharge or any other such levy or collection, be passed or become a law, except by the assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the legislature voting separately; makes an exception for any bill which results from the passage of a home rule message. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00714 | Provides that when a court of appeals judge recuses themselves from sitting in or taking part in the decision, action, claim, matter, motion or proceeding, a replacement shall be chosen on a rotating basis, based on seniority, of the next available appellate division judge. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00727 | Provides that in toxic tort cases the date of discovery of the injury by the plaintiff or claimant is presumed to be the date of diagnosis and where the specific toxic etiological cause of injury is not known for up to ten years (instead of five years) after the injury itself is discovered a plaintiff shall have three years to file a claim from the time such specific cause is discovered. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00844 | Relates to the tolling of statute of limitations for individuals in state custody; provides that with respect to state action brought by anyone to recover damages for physical, psychological, or other injury or condition suffered while in state custody, the time in which such action must commence shall be extended to three years after such person is released from such custody. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00862 | Relates to requiring limits on the number of cases a public defender may be assigned in any given year. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00867 | Provides for compensation for injury or death caused by the negligent entrustment of a firearm. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00874 | Designates the tenth day of March of each year as a public holiday, to be known as Harriet Tubman day. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00887 | Provides that a surrogate court clerk or chief clerk shall refuse to accept for filing papers filed in a proceeding only under certain circumstances or as designated in statute, administrative rule or order of the court; provides such reasons; requires the payment of any applicable statutory fees, or an order of the court waiving payment of such fees, before accepting a paper for filing; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00916 | Raises the minimum fee for temporary interpreters; requires that town and village courts share in the compensation of such temporary interpreters. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S00945 | Provides that the Governor's annual budget proposal to the Legislature shall include statements of any new legislation, amendment to legislation, or limitation on the effect of any legislation contained in the budget; makes related provisions granting the legislature an equal role with the governor in the budget process. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00947 | Prohibits residential landlords from charging tenants with fees for the payment of rent through an automated clearing house or online payment system. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S00951 | Requires real estate brokers and salespersons to compile and disclose client demographic data to the secretary of state; requires real estate brokers and salespersons to request the voluntary disclosure of demographic information from clients and record and retain such information for a period of two years. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00952 | Requires that the entire amount of a rental deposit or advance be refundable to the tenant upon the tenant's vacating of the premises except for an amount lawfully retained for non-payment of rent or utilities, damage caused by the tenant, or storage costs; requires landlord to provide an itemized statement of damages and to return the balance of the deposit within 14 days; requires that tenant be given the opportunity to inspect the rental premises prior to signing a lease; allows a grantee or | Passed | 01/08/2025 |
| S00960 | Relates to items of appropriation. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S01015 | Prohibits an individual convicted of a crime involving elder abuse from inheriting from the elder's estate as a distributee. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S01051 | Allows tenants to appeal judgments or orders issued against them without first being required to pay any portion of such judgment or order; postpones such payment until the end of the stay triggered by service upon the landlord of the notice of appeal or affidavit of intention to move for permission to appeal such judgment or order or pay an undertaking. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S01116 | Designates April twentieth as a day of commemoration to be known as New York State Constitution Day. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S01117 | Requires free education for grades pre-K through undergraduate degree programs. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S01142 | Relates to the statute of limitations for actions based on discriminatory practices in employment; establishes action must be commenced within six years. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S01163 | Prohibits rent minimums in all mortgages regardless of when issued. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S01166 | Provides for an exclusion for treble damages in actions for forcible or unlawful entry or detainer where such treble damages are unavailable to a person who, not having entered a lease or license for such real property with the rightful owner, enters onto real property or otherwise settles on land or occupies real property without title, right, permission of the rightful owner, or payment of rent accepted by the rightful owner. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S01177 | Enacts provisions governing the transition of control of certain homeowners' associations; requires owner election of board members upon the occurrence of certain events, including the conveyance of title to 90% of the parcels in the community. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S01233 | Requires landlords to ensure rental properties are equipped with utility services prior to renting such properties; requires landlords to keep utility services connected in between tenants. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S01261 | Allows for no fault separation where the relationship between the spouses has broken down irretrievably for a period of at least six months; requires that issues of support and custody or visitation have been resolved. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S01264 | Requires a mortgagor to provide notice of imminent foreclosure to their tenant or prospective tenant prior to renewing or signing a lease agreement. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S01292 | Provides for procedure in filling vacancies in the offices of comptroller and attorney-general. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| S01323 | Prohibits pre-payment penalties for mortgages secured by real property owned in a cooperative form of ownership where over fifty percent of the units are shareholder occupied. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| S01353 | Prohibits creditors from enforcing a consumer debt incurred as a result of fraud, duress, intimidation, threat, force, identity theft, exploitation of the debtor's personal information or similar economic abuse perpetrated against a debtor; establishes a right of action by the debtor for relief against creditors for violations; makes related provisions. | Crossed Over | 01/28/2025 |
| S01409 | Relates to requiring certain town and village justices be admitted to practice law in the state; requires town and village justices in a town or village with a high arraignment volume be admitted to practice law in New York state for at least five years as of the date they commence the duties of office; provides the determination of a town or village with a high arraignment volume shall be made by the office of court administration in consultation with the division of criminal justice services. | Crossed Over | 01/09/2025 |
| S01419 | Allows the alteration or repeal of real property tax exemptions for private institutions of higher education. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| S01441 | Relates to waiver of privilege; provides for the scope of a waiver, inadvertent disclosure, and the effects of a court order and party agreement on waivers of privilege or protection. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| S01452 | Enacts the "fairness in cooperative homeownership act"; regulates the submission and determinations of applications for ownership of cooperative apartments. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01475 | Excludes real property conveyances from the written notice requirement when such property is being conveyed by the state of New York or any of its political subdivisions as part of a foreclosure proceeding. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01477 | Relates to the purchase of claims by corporations or collection agencies; relates to the inference of an assignee's intent and purpose in taking an assignment of a claim against an obligor that is not an eligible obligor. | Crossed Over | 01/10/2025 |
| S01490 | Updates the fee collected by county clerks and clerks for the city of New York for deposit into the cultural education account from $15 to $30; increases the amount retained by the county or city from $0.75 to $1.00. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01557 | Enacts the "tenants organizing act"; allows tenants' groups, committees or other tenants' organizations to invite outside guests or visitors including elected officials, services providers, housing lawyers, etc. without being required to pay fees; defines "tenants' organization"; provides for activities that tenants' organizations can take part in; provides for the manner in how a tenants' organization is established. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01560 | Requires that any bill which provides revenue to the state in a non-recurring manner shall pass by a two-thirds majority in order to become law. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01569 | Prohibits certain borrowing arrangements; relates to the authorization for the contracting of debt; relates to the manner by which payments are appropriated and paid. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01573 | Prohibits the collecting of information of historical or contemporaneous prices, supply levels, or lease or rental contract termination and renewal dates of residential dwelling units from two or more rental property owners for purposes of analyzing or processing of such information using an algorithm and of recommending rental prices, lease renewal terms, or ideal occupancy levels to a rental property owner. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01584 | Provides for recall; empowers the electors with the ability to remove elective officers. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01585 | Removes constitutional provision that the lieutenant-governor shall act as governor when the governor is absent from the state; provides likewise for the case in which the lieutenant-governor is absent from the state and the case in which the temporary president of the senate is absent from the state. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01586 | Relates to term limits for the office of governor; term limits for the offices of comptroller and attorney-general; limits the terms of office as a member of the legislature any person may serve. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01587 | Establishes term limits for the offices of governor, attorney-general and comptroller; limits the amount of time any person can act as governor; limits terms of office of members of the legislature. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01589 | Provides for special elections for the offices of comptroller and attorney general for vacancies during a term. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01590 | Provides for the filling of vacancies in the office of lieutenant-governor by appointment of the governor subject to confirmation by majority vote in the senate and majority vote in the assembly. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01607 | Limits the liability of a farm or "u-pick" operation for injuries incurred while a person was picking and buying agricultural products; expands the limited exemption of a property owner from liability to a property owner who makes their premises available to others for any recreational use and to include owners of underdeveloped and/or land used in agricultural production; enacts the "equine activity safety code act". | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01608 | Requires a certificate of merit in actions for damages, contribution or indemnity arising out of alleged negligence of a professional licensed pursuant to the education law; establishes a party in an action for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice may not omit the name of certain experts in responding to a request; limits judgments for past and future damages in an action to recover damages for dental, medical or podiatric malpractice; limits compensation for noneconomic damages suffered by | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01705 | Imposes a duty on a vehicular assailant to support a surviving child of a parent or guardian killed by such person; defines income; provides for a determination of support. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| S01725 | Extends confidentiality privileges to certain communications to or from a licensed mental health counselor in the course of such licensed mental health counselor's professional employment, and to certain employees of such licensed mental health counselor; provides exceptions thereto. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| S01726 | Provides interest rate limitations for financing arrangements and the extension of consumer credit; relates to the definitions of criminal usury in the first and second degrees; relates to the functions of the attorney general regarding rental purchase agreements. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| S01745 | Provides that the term "landlord" when used in the real property law, shall not include or apply to any corporation, entity or organization, hereinafter known as a "cooperative entity" that is or is operating for the purpose of providing housing and/or residences for its shareholders by leasing or subleasing to such shareholders, under proprietary leases or occupancy agreements or subleases of such leases or occupancy agreements of apartments or residences in the buildings or premises owned by s | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| S01766 | Provides that a plaintiff shall have up to twenty-one days to consider whether any resolution to a claim involving discrimination, harassment or retaliation shall include the underlying facts of the claim or whether such underlying facts shall be kept confidential. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| S01814 | Replaces the words addict or addicts with the words person with substance use disorder or a variation thereof. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| S01840 | Incorporates the 2022 Uniform Law Commission recommended amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code to provide for emerging technologies; addresses emerging technologies, providing updated rules for commercial transactions involving virtual currencies, distributed ledger technologies (including blockchain), artificial intelligence, and other technological developments. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| S01845 | Eliminates the requirement that certain papers, records and documents relating to the misconduct or discipline of attorneys be sealed. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| S01849 | Requires more specific data reporting by the chief administrator to include information relating to all courts in the unified court system, including town and village courts. | Crossed Over | 01/14/2025 |
| S01876 | Relates to capping the state budget at fifteen percent of total state gross domestic product for the prior calendar year, as determined by the state comptroller. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| S01890 | Proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the terms of office of members of the legislature to four years and limit the terms of office a member of the legislature may serve. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| S01944 | Establishes the fourteenth judicial district which shall consist of the counties of Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| S01960 | Allows only citizens to vote at elections. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| S01995 | Exempts a person from a money judgment arising from an action in another state for knowingly engaging in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| S02017 | Relates to conveying approximately 1.2 acres of land located within the forest preserve to the town of Montague, Lewis county, in order to allow the expansion of the town's barn for public use, in exchange for 26 acres of land to be conveyed by such town to the state. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| S02033 | Requires parity in the mental and physical health treatment of the residents of New York state; provides that both mental and physical health "will be matters of public concern and provision therefor shall be made by the state and by such of its subdivisions". | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| S02062 | Provides that all persons have the right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being, and the right to be free from hunger, malnutrition, starvation and the endangerment of life from the scarcity of or lack of access to nourishing food. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| S02131 | Relates to securing payment of wages for work already performed; creates a lien remedy for all employees; provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| S02146 | Repeals and reenacts statute of limitation provisions on wrongful death, personal injury and property damage actions against professional engineers, architects, landscape architects, land surveyors and construction contractors to provide for a limitations period of ten years after completion of improvement to real property; "completion", which constitutes the accrual date for the limitations period, is defined; provides for a one year extension for injuries to person or property or wrongful deat | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| S02188 | Gives justice courts limited equity powers to compel compliance with local zoning, building and fire prevention codes; grants justice courts the authority to issue injunctions and temporary restraining orders relating thereto. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| S02191 | Increases the monetary jurisdiction of the justice courts from three thousand dollars to fifteen thousand dollars. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| S02218 | Relates to rental-purchase agreement forms including requirements for font size and how to calculate late charges. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| S02221 | Provides for the establishment of a biennial budgeting system for the state of New York replacing the state annual budget process. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| S02230 | Requires the reporting of completed judicial training as mandated by part 17 of the rules of the chief judge of the New York state unified court system. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| S02231 | Relates to requiring a certificate of merit in proceedings to recover possession of real property; requires the petition shall be accompanied by a certificate, signed by the attorney for the petitioner, certifying that the attorney has reviewed the facts of the case and that, based on consultation with representatives of the petitioner identified in the certificate and the attorney's review of pertinent documents, there is a reasonable basis for the commencement of such action; provides that whe | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| S02240 | Removes the lifetime ban on jury duty for convicted felons. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| S02296 | Relates to the creation of a court appointed advocate for animals. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| S02305 | Prohibits the entry of a judgment by confession on amounts due from one or more individuals for personal, family, household, consumer or non-business purposes and on a debt incurred if the principal amount of such debt was less than $5,000,000. | Crossed Over | 01/16/2025 |
| S02307 | Permits the legislature to increase the number of justices of the supreme court in any judicial district up to one justice for every thirty thousand people in the district. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| S02342 | Provides for the governor to fill a vacancy for the offices of comptroller and attorney-general and for such person to serve until the next general election. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| S02359 | Enacts the court order protection act. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
| S02410 | Prohibits transfer agents from accepting waiver of probate forms to bypass formal estate procedures through the courts. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| S02422 | Repeals provisions relating to allowing attorneys having offices in the state to reside in an adjoining state. | Crossed Over | 01/17/2025 |
| S02428 | Relates to the right to hunt, trap and fish; provides for regulation by the state. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| S02433 | Establishes certain rights upon the expiration of ground lease residential cooperative apartment buildings. | Crossed Over | 01/17/2025 |
| S02497 | Permits the admissibility of testimony that a person reported acts of discrimination to another person in a civil trial under the human rights law, including the contents of such report. | Crossed Over | 01/21/2025 |
| S02512 | Creates the fundamental right of the people to have access to public information and to be provided notice of and to attend public meetings. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| S02532 | Eliminates filing fees for wills filed for safekeeping in the surrogate's court. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| S02544 | Relates to designating blighted property and blighted areas; establishes criteria for designation; provides definition of blighted property and blighted areas; amends definition of substandard or insanitary area by removing the words "slum" and "deteriorated or deteriorating". | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| S02545 | Relates to licensing tenant screening bureaus; provides that no person shall act as a tenant screening bureau without first obtaining a license from the department of state. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| S02546 | Authorizes the mortgagee or lienor of an abandoned multiple dwelling to apply for the appointment of a receiver to bring the building into compliance. | Crossed Over | 01/21/2025 |
| S02563 | Designates that the commissioners of public service shall be elected in a manner to be prescribed by law. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| S02578 | Permits the enforcement of a judgment against certain trust and annuities in the case of minor victims of sexual abuse. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| S02592 | Directs the chief administrator of the courts to develop a plan to address court calendar congestion upon the expiration of the eviction moratorium including additional temporary space for courts, additional hours, appointing additional judges to handle pending proceedings and coordination with OTDA. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| S02597 | Establishes standards for public access to family court proceedings and when a judge can exclude individuals from proceedings. | Crossed Over | 01/21/2025 |
| S02624 | Adds three additional family court judges to the county of Richmond; adds three additional judges to the civil court of the county of Richmond. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| S02627 | Establishes the homeowner protection program; provides that the department of law shall establish the homeowner protection program to ensure the availability of free housing counseling and legal services to homeowners for the purposes of mitigating threats to homeownership; provides that the department of law shall provide grants to eligible not-for-profit housing counseling organizations and legal services organizations to provide services under the program. | Crossed Over | 01/22/2025 |
| S02636 | Raises the jurisdictional amount for small claims cases from $3,000 to $10,000 in justice court. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| S02663 | Prohibits mortgagee from refusing to accept partial mortgage payments from a mortgagor which does not bring the mortgagor current on his or her mortgage debt. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| S02695 | Prohibits the admissibility of evidence of a victim's sexual conduct, sexual predisposition, or manner of dress in civil actions or proceedings; provides limited exceptions. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| S02696 | Relates to proof of claims for unjust conviction and imprisonment. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| S02697 | Prohibits the use of an algorithmic device by a landlord for the purpose of determining the amount of rent to charge a residential tenant; declares that such use is an unfair or deceptive trade practice. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| S02698 | Requires certification of filings produced using generative artificial intelligence; requires the brief of an appellant to contain a disclosure of the use of generative artificial intelligence in the drafting of the brief and certification that the content therein was reviewed and verified by a human. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| S02700 | Creates a special subpart of the housing part within the NYC civil court to handle cases involving condominiums and cooperative buildings. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
| S03020 | Exempts private and parochial schools and day care centers from immunization requirements. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S03025 | Provides for the recall of a district attorney. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S03034 | Prohibits the legislature from transferring funds from the power authority of the state of New York into the general fund. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S03036 | Relates to making technical corrections to ensure gender neutrality for the admission to practice law and preventing the character fitness questionnaire from inquiring into an applicant's prior interaction with law enforcement or the criminal justice system under certain circumstances. | Crossed Over | 01/23/2025 |
| S03047 | Relates to the taxation of moneys, credits, securities and other intangible personal property in the state that is not employed in carrying on any business therein. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S03048 | Relates to the confidentiality and expungement of records in juvenile delinquency cases in the family court; requires certain records to be expunged automatically. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| S03081 | Provides that there is no duty to keep premises safe for persons engaging in noncommercial aviation. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S03089 | Authorizes courts to exercise discretion permitting a courthouse facility dog for use by witnesses to be used in any judicial proceeding; provides that courts with an available courthouse facility dog must allow a witness under eighteen years of age, or who has a developmental disability, to use a courthouse facility dog to accompany such person while testifying in court; allows any witness who does not meet the criteria of being under eighteen years of age or having a developmental disability t | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S03132 | Provides for initiative and referendum in New York State for the People as electors to propose or reject laws and submit amendments to the state constitution. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
| S03160 | Provides that limited liability for persons held jointly liable shall not apply to parties held liable for failing to provide reasonable security or failing to provide security required by federal, state or local law, rules or regulations. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| S03164 | Relates to permitting lessees the option to pay security deposits in six or fewer equal installments. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| S03170 | Enacts the "family court adjusted service time (FAST) act"; requires family courts in New York City to remain open until midnight on at least one weekday each week in at least two counties effective January 1, 2026, and in at least three counties, effective January 1, 2027. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| S03172 | Removes mandatory requirement age for certain judges and justices not otherwise required to retire by the state constitution. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| S03178 | Requires the modification of restrictive covenants prior to the sale of real property when covenants, conditions and restrictions exist which discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, familial status, marital status, disability, national origin, source of income or ancestry. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| S03209 | Requires children under the age of eighteen to wear protective headgear while skiing or snowboarding; imposes civil fines for violations thereof; applies safety in skiing code requirements to snowboarders and snowboarding. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| S03231 | Relates to the qualification of voters; provides that a citizen who is seventeen years of age at the time of a primary election and who will be eighteen years of age at the time of the general election for which such primary election is held, shall be eligible to vote in such primary election. | Crossed Over | 01/24/2025 |
| S03307 | Sets forth the manner by which an owner of real property in the town of Southampton, county of Suffolk, which is bisected by a school district boundary shall pay real property school taxes. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| S03311 | Provides that the failure of a party challenging a building permit, variance, subdivision or other land use approval to seek a preliminary injunction to prevent construction shall not give rise to the opposing party raising the defense of mootness if such party continues and/or completes construction with knowledge that an action challenging its land use approval has been timely commenced. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| S03324 | Requires VA home loan training in the required training for real estate brokers. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| S03338 | Relates to the scheduling of a fact finding hearing after the issuance of a temporary order of protection in family court; provides that such hearing shall be scheduled no later than 14 days after the temporary order is issued. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| S03380 | Establishes daylight saving time as the year-round standard time of the state and the city of New York. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| S03384 | Relates to the number of senators and the apportionment of senate districts; provides that each senate district shall be comprised of one county in its entirety. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| S03394 | Enacts the "ceasing repeated and extremely egregious predatory (CREEP) behavior act"; provides for the issuance of anti-stalking orders. | Crossed Over | 01/27/2025 |
| S03395 | Permits the sale of goods that remain in a self-storage facility to enforce a lien by the facility through a public website, pursuant to notice requirements. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| S03413 | Permits court ruling in favor of a petitioner appealing the denial of a disability pension determination to grant disability pension. | Crossed Over | 01/27/2025 |
| S03462 | Relates to the rights of tenants to display the flag of the United States. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| S03483 | Authorizes justice courts to exercise jurisdiction over commercial claims arising out of a transaction between a claimant and a natural person, wherein the money, property or service which is the subject of the transaction is primarily for personal, family or household purposes. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| S03484 | Proposes a constitutional amendment to divide the state into three autonomous regions; the New Amsterdam Region, the New York Region and the Montauk Region; provides regional governors and regional legislators; provides only for a state sales tax; divides various departments and agencies; provides for separate court systems and prison systems. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| S03508 | Requires the office of court administration and division of criminal justice services to collect and publish certain data relating to bail reform. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| S03568 | Provides that all residential leases shall contain a detailed description of tenant's statutory rights including among others, warranty of habitability, willful violation of lease, right to participate in tenants' associations, no eviction for good faith complaint, utility payment offset and sublet rights; grants tenant the right to install extra locks; sets out landlord obligations with respect to heating and oil delivery. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| S03650 | Sets up rules and regulations for the operation of lease-hold retirement communities to provide adequate housing for senior citizens wishing to retire and locate in a lease-hold retirement community; grants owners of homes in lease-hold retirement communities the right to sell their homes by methods common to sales of residential property; requires that owners of lease-hold retirement communities offer owners of homes the option to sign a long-term ninety-nine year lease. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| S03657 | Regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; limits state officers, employees and law enforcement inquiring about an individual's immigration status. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| S03660 | Relates to liability to support a child who is placed in foster care pursuant to an approved application for foster care maintenance; provides that such liability shall not be imposed if it will adversely affect the health, safety or welfare of the child on whose behalf such payments are to be made or other persons in the child's household or will adversely affect the length of the child's placement or impair the ability of the child to return home when discharged from foster care; limits the ab | Crossed Over | 01/29/2025 |
| S03661 | Eliminates the restriction on class actions involving a penalty or minimum recovery; adds language expressly permitting class actions against governmental entities. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| S03676 | Relates to the definition of residence and residential real property. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| S03690 | Relates to adding certain notice requirements for enforcing liens on goods in self-storage facilities. | Crossed Over | 01/29/2025 |
| S03733 | Relates to electronic citation fees or the process of transmitting traffic, misdemeanor, municipal ordinance, conservation, or other citations and law enforcement data via electronic means to a county clerk. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| S03737 | Relates to preventing fraudulent deed transfers; protects home owners from being misled into transferring their home to mortgage servicers. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| S03739 | Increases the number of county court judges in Saratoga county by one justice. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| S03766 | Authorizes renewals in certain instances by an aggrieved party to the court of appeals based on a subsequent change in law. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| S03778 | Establishes the chief administrator of the courts shall submit annually a report on the administration, function and effectiveness of the Drug Treatment Court Program during the preceding year. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| S03799 | Provides an owner or lessee access to adjoining property to make improvements or repairs for certain circumstances. | Crossed Over | 01/30/2025 |
| S03807 | Requires that plaintiffs no longer have to prove that a sexual offense occurred on the premises of, chattels or property belonging to a corporate entity in action for negligent supervision. | Crossed Over | 01/30/2025 |
| S03816 | Requires mercantile establishments to cease collections upon a court finding of not guilty of larceny in mercantile establishments. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03837 | Enacts the "sunshine in litigation act" regarding protective orders to prohibit settlement agreements which conceal a public hazard or any information that would identify a public hazard. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03845 | Prohibits residential landlords from charging tenants a fee for a dishonored rent check in excess of the actual costs or fees incurred by such landlord as a result thereof, provided such dishonored check fee was included in the initial lease. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03849 | Authorizes the legislature to increase the number of justices of the supreme court in any judicial district. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03864 | Relates to the publication of judicial opinions rendered in criminal causes. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03868 | Prohibits the enforcement of mandatory arbitration agreements clauses and joint-action waivers with respect to workplace disputes; clarifies that section 7515 of the civil practice laws and rules applies retroactively to nullify pre-existing illegal mandatory arbitration clauses. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03872 | Relates to claims for unjust conviction and imprisonment and the availability of certain benefits and entitlements to exonerees; allows for sealing of records, payment of awards and payment of attorney's fees; repeals certain provisions relating thereto. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03875 | Provides that for settlements that require a court order, the order, or the judgment in a special proceeding, shall provide for the payment of interest on the settlement amount at the statutory interest rate on judgments. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03879 | Amends provisions of law governing arbitration proceedings; specifies fees and expenses with regard to employment or consumer arbitration proceedings; directs certain sanctions on a party which breaches an arbitration agreement. | Crossed Over | 01/30/2025 |
| S03888 | Relates to the determination of damages in a civil action arising from personal injury or wrongful death; provides that damages shall not be reduced because of age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status, marital status, or status as a victim of domestic violence; provides that damages shall not be based on statistical tables | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03920 | Provides that the inherent right of each person to personal privacy shall not be infringed. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03922 | Requires approval by 2/3 vote of membership of the senate and assembly voting separately to increase or decrease any tax rate, impose a new state tax, extend or delete existing state tax. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03923 | Limits the use of messages of necessity to situations involving a state of emergency. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03926 | Relates to the discoverability of recordings found on police body worn cameras and vehicle cameras. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03959 | Creates the fourteenth judicial district consisting of the county of Monroe; provides for continuation of the seventh judicial district and the positions of certain seventh and fourteenth judicial district justices; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S03991 | Creates the New York Civil Gideon Act. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S04004 | Provides that a mortgage investing institution that maintains a mortgage on any real property in the state of New York shall give ten days written notice prior to requiring payment of an increase in the amount of escrow if the dollar amount of such increase is more than five percent of the total monthly payment; provides that no service charge shall be imposed for the giving of such notice; defines that term "mortgage investing institutions" as any banking organization or other entity engaged in | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S04087 | Requires a landlord to return to a tenant the full security deposit within thirty days of the surrender of the premises by such tenant unless the landlord provides such tenant with a written statement listing the reasons for the retention of any portion of the deposit; sets forth particular situations for which the landlord may retain such security deposit; renders the landlord liable for treble damages for any violation. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S04093 | Enacts the "language barrier to justice elimination act"; establishes standards for court interpreters and a procedure for waiver of a non-English speaking person's right to an interpreter in any proceeding. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S04101 | Provides counsel appointed in the supreme court or surrogate's court for certain family matters shall be compensated in the same manner as law guardians in the family court of this state. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| S04134 | Enacts the "Lydia Peikon Cotz act"; provides domestic violence victims and crime victims with supervision while taking depositions; directs the court to provide a secure location within the courthouse, and a court officer, for such persons taking depositions. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| S04142 | Requires the disclosure of bedbug infestation history for the previous year to prospective lessees; does not apply to cities with a population of one million or more; includes co-op sales and co-op and condo rentals in addition to other types of rentals. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| S04179 | Prohibits utility companies from certain replevin actions; provides that the continued provision of all or any part of gas, electric and steam service to all residential and commercial customers without unreasonable qualifications or lengthy delays is necessary for the preservation of the health and general welfare and is in the public interest; establishes the seizure of electric, gas, or steam meters is against the public interest. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| S04182 | Relates to the designation of Good Friday as a public holiday. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| S04189 | Defines blighted properties and areas. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| S04225 | Relates to the time to commence certain medical malpractice actions; provides that actions related to acts or omissions of hospitals where an incident report is required to be filed may be filed within one year of the required filing. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| S04238 | Compels the delivery of real property subject to a fraudulent transfer to the person entitled thereto; provides for the recording of judgments and orders relating to a fraudulent conveyance of title to property. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| S04265 | Requires the disclosure of lead-based paint test reports in real estate transactions. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| S04282 | Creates the anti-SLAPP act; provides that discovery shall be suspended pending a decision on the motion. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| S04293 | Provides for notice of illegal restrictive covenant language in documents to be recorded and the recordation of restrictive covenant modification documents where conveyance instruments include language violative of civil rights laws; requires any title insurance company, title abstract company or escrow company to include such notice in title abstract reports and to inform purchaser/title insurance applicants of the availability from the county recorder of restrictive covenant modification docum | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| S04319 | Establishes restrictions on consumer and employment contracts. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| S04337 | Exempts guardianship motions filed under article 81 of the mental hygiene law by a fiduciary, court evaluator, guardian ad litem, court-appointed attorney or by the court examiner from the required filing fee. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| S04347 | Allows a tenant to offset against future rental payments the cost of certain emergency repairs a landlord is either unwilling or unable to correct within twenty-four hours of notice to the landlord of the need for such emergency repair, provided that the tenant provides landlord with itemized cost accounting of all emergency repairs made. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| S04393 | Authorizes ballot by mail by removing cause for absentee ballot voting. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| S04409 | Requires the issuance of certificates of occupancy for rental property damaged by fire. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| S04419 | Requires the chief administrator of the office of court administration to establish a searchable public database providing information regarding eviction proceedings in the state; directs the chief administrator to adopt rules directing village, town or other local courts to report their eviction proceeding data to the office of court administration. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| S04423 | Provides for the types of damages that may be awarded to the persons for whose benefit an action for wrongful death is brought. | Crossed Over | 02/04/2025 |
| S04439 | Establishes the definition for legislation; provides that such proposed language shall be presented in a clear and concise manner, be limited to 50 pages and use words that have common everyday meanings. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| S04458 | Requires a signature and government-issued photo identification for both voter registration and at the time of voting. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| S04507 | Relates to the form of the juror qualification questionnaire; provides that such questionnaire shall only require a prospective juror who is not a citizen of the United States to certify, under penalty of perjury, that they are not a citizen. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| S04549 | Requires principals to make a good faith effort to identify and notify co-trustees and co-beneficiaries of the signing of a power of attorney including the identity of the agent where the agent is not a co-trustee or co-beneficiary. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| S04556 | Provides representation to veterans that are at or below four hundred percent of the federal poverty guidelines for matters involving children, sustenance and real property proceedings. | In Committee | 02/07/2025 |
| S04611 | Provides grounds for attachment; relates to procedures where employees may hold shareholders of non-publicly traded corporations personally liable for wage theft; relates to rights for victims of wage theft to hold the ten members with the largest ownership interests in a company personally liable for wage theft; relates to penalties for certain wage violations. | Crossed Over | 02/10/2025 |
| S04641 | Prohibits non-compete agreements and certain restrictive covenants; authorizes covered individuals to bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction against any employer or persons alleged to have violated such prohibition. | Crossed Over | 05/14/2025 |
| S04653 | Enacts the "television subscriber choice act" to enhance consumer choice and ensure that multichannel video programming distributors have the flexibility to offer programming packages that best meet the needs and preferences of their subscribers; requires that a video programmer shall offer each channel for license to a multichannel video programming distributor without requiring channel bundling requirements as a condition of carriage of such channel; makes it unlawful for a video programmer to | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
| S04683 | Allows the alteration or repeal of real property tax exemptions for certain private institutions of higher education by the passage of a private bill by the legislature and approval by the governor. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| S04703 | Requires a recording officer not to record or accept a transfer or assignment of interest in a mortgage unless accompanied with a mortgage ownership assignment document. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| S04772 | Revokes the public pension of a public officer who stands convicted on an impeachment; applies retroactively. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| S04784 | Eliminates judicial immunity or quasi-judicial immunity for certain third parties, such as special masters, minor's counsel, investigators, therapists, evaluators, receivers, bankruptcy trustees, experts, and factfinders, who provide a report or finding to the family court. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| S04789 | Relates to training requirements for attorneys appointed to represent a child in certain proceedings. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| S04800 | Incorporates legislative provisions regarding the conduct of special elections to fill vacancies in federal elected offices into the constitution. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04825 | Provides that a judge of a city court outside the city of New York may only serve until the last day of December next after such person shall be seventy-six years of age; makes exceptions for judges already elected or appointed to office. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04836 | Increases the number of county court judges in Schenectady county from one judge to two. | Crossed Over | 02/13/2025 |
| S04840 | Requires a surety bond for contractors and subcontractors where no public fund has been established for the financing of a public improvement. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04856 | Extends the timeline for the return of security deposits for residential rental agreements from fourteen days to thirty days. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04859 | Relates to complaints regarding judges and confidentiality of records; extends the jurisdiction of the state commission on judicial conduct as to judges who resign or retire while under investigation or formal charges. | Crossed Over | 02/13/2025 |
| S04957 | Provides for review of bail data reports by the state commission on judicial conduct to study such reports for evidence of bias or prejudice by any judge or justice, and where appropriate based on such reports, to initiate, investigate, and hear complaints and otherwise comment on matters of bias and prejudice evidenced therein. | Crossed Over | 02/14/2025 |
| S04998 | Increases the amount of allowance that trial and grand jurors are entitled to in each court of the unified court system. | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| S04999 | Provides for the disqualification of a surviving spouse if the marriage is annulled or voided after the death of the spouse. | Crossed Over | 02/14/2025 |
| S05029 | Requires that no person acting as a political party chairperson, an elected public officer, an individual who is subject to the rules established by the commission on public integrity and any other person who is an officer of an organization, association or corporation that receives public funding shall be elected as a delegate to a constitutional convention. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| S05031 | Relates to the operation of games of chance by employees of authorized organizations. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| S05066 | Provides that in the city of New York, a part of the court shall be devoted to actions and proceedings where: every party to the proceeding is a natural person; or the petitioner alleges in its petition that it is a "small landlord"; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| S05081 | Provides for the establishment of a forty-five dollar fee for all motions made in pending proceedings and for ex parte applications in the surrogate's court. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| S05089 | Creates a residential condominium owner's bill of rights that includes the right to transparency, the right to timely decisions, voting rights, the right to notice, and the right against extraordinary expenses. | Crossed Over | 02/18/2025 |
| S05112 | Requires radon inspections by sellers for the sale of residential real property; provides exemptions. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| S05122 | Establishes a housing court for actions and proceedings involving the enforcement of state and local laws for the establishment and maintenance of housing standards; requires such court to establish an escrow account; provides that any landlord that owns twenty units or less shall be entitled to free legal services if such landlord can prove a loss of at least twenty percent of rent payments in a calendar year; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| S05170 | Permits a plaintiff to recover directly against a third party defendant found to be liable to the defendant in certain actions. | Crossed Over | 02/19/2025 |
| S05195 | Relates to the composition of boards of elections; provides that such boards shall have other qualifications for performing their duties as the legislature may direct. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| S05214 | Designates September 11th as a public holiday to be known as September 11th Memorial and Remembrance Day. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| S05227 | Relates to the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Essex County. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| S05271 | Designates certain zip codes within Bronx county and Mount Vernon in Westchester county as cease and desist zones. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| S05278 | Relates to establishing new fee rates for large estates; raises the fee rate for estates with a value over $5,000,000 to $10,000. | Crossed Over | 02/20/2025 |
| S05285 | Relates to persons who may become a voluntary administrator; includes fiduciaries of a deceased distributee, or a competent adult who is not a distributee upon the filed consent of all competent distributees as persons who can become a voluntary administrator prior to the chief fiscal officer of the county becoming such. | Crossed Over | 02/20/2025 |
| S05286 | Prohibits self-service facility owners from enforcing liens, by private or public sale, on personal property held in a self-storage facility during state disaster emergencies or county states of emergency. | Crossed Over | 02/20/2025 |
| S05288 | Relates to the proper form of exhibits for submission; provides every exhibit shall be clearly identified, but no specific method of labeling shall be required. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| S05316 | Increases the jurisdictional limit from $3,000 to $5,000 for justice courts; increases filing fees. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| S05334 | Amends the constitution to provide for an economic bill of rights for the citizens of the state. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| S05336 | Relates to creating the uniform trade secrets act. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| S05370 | Relates to claims for unjust conviction. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S05404 | Prohibits provisions in any waiver, settlement, agreement or other resolution of any claim where the foundation for which is an alleged violation of the labor law or article fifteen of the executive law, that prevent the disclosure of the employee's workplace experience with the employer. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S05424 | Relates to ratifying the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the labor of persons under eighteen years of age. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S05425 | Requires employment and consumer dispute arbitrations to be submitted to neutral third party arbitrators; establishes prohibited arbitration agreements and provisions; requires disclosure of information by certain arbitrators. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S05426 | Increases the period of supervision to five years for real estate brokers applying for a license. | Vetoed | 02/21/2025 |
| S05439 | Enacts provisions to protect property owners from timber theft; establishes contractual requirements for logging agreements. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S05445 | Creates a private right of action by a tenant against a landlord in a city having a population of one million or more persons over sidewalk sheds. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S05467 | Relates to the liability of payroll processing companies; provides that payroll processing companies that intentionally and wrongfully prevent the distribution of payroll shall be liable to employees that failed to receive an expected payment for an amount up to three times the expected amount; provides an action to recover damages may be maintained as a class action. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S05471 | Codifies the duty of real estate brokers to supervise salespersons and associate brokers through regular, frequent and consistent personal guidance, instruction and oversight; lists elements of supervision including the ability to familiarize salespersons with state and federal laws against discrimination. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S05493 | Proposes an amendment to require the use of paper ballots in elections. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S05502 | Relates to determining when a dwelling is abandoned. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S05514 | Includes consideration of evidence of recent acts of aggravated cruelty to animals as a factor to be considered when determining whether grounds for a temporary extreme risk protection order exist. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| S05524 | Establishes the paired testing program and compliance fee to determine if any real estate broker, real estate salesperson or employee or agent thereof is using unlawful discriminatory practices; creates the paired testing program fund. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| S05546 | Relates to action arising out of consumer debt; defines consumer debt and replaces consumer credit transaction with such term. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| S05559 | Creates, in addition to the existing sanction of criminal contempt of court, the remedies of labor law civil penalties and employee's right to bring civil action for unlawful discharge, penalty or discrimination on account of the exercise by an employee of a juror's right to be absent from employment by reason of jury service. | Crossed Over | 02/25/2025 |
| S05572 | Enacts the child custody reform act to provide uniform statewide standards for the litigation and mediation of child custody disputes; provides for an initial planning conference between the judge and all parties to attempt a settlement; provides for mediation unless the court finds mediation is inappropriate; requires the chief administrator of the courts to establish plans for the conduct of administration of the mediation and preparation of evaluation reports. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| S05592 | Authorizes the governor to fill vacancy in the office of lieutenant-governor on confirmation of both houses of the legislature; allows the governor to leave the state without transmitting power to lieutenant-governor; establishes the process for lieutenant-governor to act as governor during incapacitation of the governor. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
| S05642 | Requires a sworn affidavit stating the seller was informed of the fair market value of the property which includes an estimate of the fair market value of the property be included in the real property transfer form. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S05651 | Prohibits the acquisition of real property by foreign countries and entities of particular concern as well as citizens, companies, entities, and members of such countries and entities. | In Committee | 02/26/2025 |
| S05682 | Implements "Cassie's law" which provides a private right of action for crime victims against persons or private entities who suppress evidence of a crime in exchange for monetary compensation. | In Committee | 02/27/2025 |
| S05711 | Requires certain elections take place in even-numbered years for certain municipal and judicial officials except in the city of New York. | In Committee | 02/28/2025 |
| S05725 | Relates to New York observing daylight savings time permanently. | In Committee | 02/28/2025 |
| S05751 | Amends the constitution to delete the requirement that registration for purposes of voting be completed at least ten days before election day; provides that laws be made to adequately safeguard against deception in the exercise of the right of suffrage. | In Committee | 02/28/2025 |
| S05772 | Establishes the right to inspection of residential real properties, condominium units, and cooperative apartments. | In Committee | 02/28/2025 |
| S05774 | Establishes a penalty of not less than $1,000 for each intentional destruction, mutilation or significant alteration of a medical record by a party to a medical malpractice action, or by any officer, director, member, employee or agent of such party; establishes a cause of action on behalf of any person injured as the result of such destruction, mutilation or significant alteration; requires disclosure of metadata, audit trail, and log-in information associated with electronic medical records in | In Committee | 02/28/2025 |
| S05780 | Requires real estate brokers and salespersons to complete two hours of sexual harassment prevention training every two years. | In Committee | 02/28/2025 |
| S05818 | Creates a civil cause of action for the manufacture, sale, or distribution of assault weapons or ghost guns within the state; aiding and abetting such manufacture, sale or distribution; or intending to aid and abet in such manufacture, sale or distribution; provides for a civil remedy of ten thousand dollars per violation. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| S05831 | Prohibits the governor from granting themselves or any person involved with furthering the illegal conduct of the governor a reprieve, commutation or pardon. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| S05851 | Requires certain elections take place in even-numbered years for certain municipal and judicial officials. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| S05877 | Relates to eligibility requirements to run for the office of president of the United States; requires upon declaration of intention to run for the office of president of the United States, an individual who is currently holding office at the state or local level must thereafter resign such state or local office. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| S05947 | Authorizes the town of Pavilion in Genesee county to share and hold justice court in the town of Covington in Wyoming county. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| S05956 | Provides for enhanced enforcement of the warranty of habitability for housing accommodations; provides court may award punitive damages to a tenant upon finding the landlord's breach of warranty was intentional and malicious. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| S05968 | Increases the value of homesteads which are exempt from civil judgments from one hundred fifty thousand to two hundred fifty thousand dollars. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| S05998 | Requires the court to consider a child's health and safety when making a decision regarding child custody and visitation; directs the court to review certain information as it relates to allegations of child abuse, domestic violence and child safety; requires the court to appoint an attorney to represent the child when credible allegations of serious risk to the child's safety have been made. | Crossed Over | 03/04/2025 |
| S06048 | Authorizes Susan Gillinder, the widow of Robert C. Ritchie, to file a new service retirement application and an option election form on behalf of her deceased husband with the New York state and local employees' retirement system. | Crossed Over | 03/05/2025 |
| S06049 | Renames the supreme court the superior court and the court of appeals the supreme court. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| S06060 | Relates to the timing of proceedings against a body or an officer. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| S06079 | Relates to voting rights. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| S06086 | Establishes the health care courts pilot program. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| S06090 | Provides for an optional excuse from jury service for persons age 70 and over. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| S06128 | Relates to when an adverse party is entitled to production of a writing, object, or other material a witness has used to refresh the witness' recollection. | Crossed Over | 03/05/2025 |
| S06135 | Relates to designating the county of Kings a cease and desist zone; establishes an affirmative defense to violations of nonsolicitation orders and cease and desist zones. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| S06144 | Designates Kwanzaa as a public holiday in New York. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| S06182 | Relates to reducing a police officer's pension to satisfy judgments in a wrongful death action; provides that a police officer's pension may be reduced to no less than $20,000 to satisfy a wrongful death judgment; provides that a court shall hold a hearing to determine the amount of the reduction. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| S06183 | Establishes a five-year moratorium on foreign entities purchasing homes in New York state unless the purchase is for a primary residence; directs the department of state to conduct a study on the effects of the moratorium on the housing market and to send a report on the study to the legislature; specifies data and indicators to analyze for the study; defines terms. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| S06192 | Relates to increasing term limits and limiting the number of terms of office a member of the legislature may serve. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| S06220 | Relates to the enforcement of liens on personal property at self-storage facilities; requires enforcement of a lien by public sale; requires a delay in enforcement of a lien if the tenant is a service member who is transferred or deployed on active duty or if the tenant is deceased; requires 60 days notice if the property subject to the lien is a motor vehicle or watercraft; requires a storage facility to hold certain surplus funds. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| S06229 | Permits the admissibility into evidence of statements in learned treatises, periodicals, or pamphlets if the statement is called to the attention of an expert witness and the publication is established as a reliable authority by the expert's admission or testimony, by another expert's testimony, or by judicial notice. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| S06244 | Enacts the "Lieutenant Joseph Banish mental health act" which establishes a law enforcement peer support program to provide confidentiality for communications arising out of law enforcement peer support counseling; defines terms; provides exceptions for when a peer support communication may be disclosed. | Crossed Over | 03/07/2025 |
| S06269 | Updates contingent fee rules for attorneys in claims or actions for medical, dental or podiatric malpractice; permits applications for enhanced fees; permits plaintiffs to waive contingent retainer limitations. | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S06285 | Relates to proceedings in family court; requires all transcripts of proceedings or hearings in family court shall be provided to the parties within five days of such proceeding or hearing; requires attorneys for children shall meet monthly with both parents or guardians and submit a report, including, but not limited to each meeting, the non-confidential, substantive portion of any meetings and any communications with the parties and the child or children; increases the compensation of assigned | In Committee | 03/07/2025 |
| S06300 | Relates to the expiration of right to collect consumer credit debt; includes any attempts made by the creditor, third-party purchaser or other authorized third party to collect such debt. | In Committee | 03/10/2025 |
| S06322 | Requires notice of enforcement of a lien on goods in a self-storage facility to be sent to an emergency contact designated by the occupant in a manner similar to the occupant; requires notice to update information on occupancy agreement. | In Committee | 03/10/2025 |
| S06362 | Relates to protections for victims of real property theft, providing for a rebuttable presumption that a purchaser or incumbrancer has notice of fraud or fraudulent intent in certain circumstances. | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| S06363 | Requires a mortgagee to accept and apply payments. | In Committee | 03/11/2025 |
| S06397 | Establishes security deposit options for certain tenants, including but not limited to, an option to pay any deposit or advance to rent or use residential real property or a dwelling unit. | In Committee | 03/13/2025 |
| S06449 | Relates to interest to be recovered upon a sum awarded in certain circumstances. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S06591 | Provides for recall of a statewide elective officer; empowers the citizens with the ability to remove elective officers. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| S06666 | Relates to the liability of landowners who permit recreational uses of their land; establishes landowners owe no duty to keep premises safe for entry, passage over premises or other recreational uses or to give warning of any hazardous condition or use of or structure or activity on such premises to persons entering for such purposes. | In Committee | 03/19/2025 |
| S06729 | Prohibits landlords from restricting the installation of appliances or fixtures by tenants; provides that the landlord is not compelled to change utilities for such installation; prohibits surcharge where tenant pays utilities directly to provider; requires a tenant restore appliances or fixtures to the condition they were prior to being installed or allowing such appliances or fixtures remain in the rental unit at no cost to the landlord; defines "appliances or fixtures". | In Committee | 03/21/2025 |
| S06739 | Standardizes the language across the relevant court acts to allow tenants statewide to sue in the county where the real property at issue is located in matters relating to a tenancy or lease; requires the Office of Court Administration to develop necessary forms, procedures and deliver a report. | Crossed Over | 03/21/2025 |
| S06789 | Provides for the filling of vacancies in the office of lieutenant-governor by appointment of the governor subject to confirmation by majority vote in the senate and majority vote in the assembly; provides for an extended order of succession for the filling of a vacancy in the office of the governor. | In Committee | 03/24/2025 |
| S06794 | Increases the length of the term of office to four years for members of the legislature. | In Committee | 03/24/2025 |
| S06908 | Enacts the beekeeping rights act to prohibit homeowners' associations from adopting or enforcing any rules or regulations that would effectively prohibit, or impose unreasonable limitations on, the installation or use of an apiary. | In Committee | 03/26/2025 |
| S06914 | Establishes the rental assistance payment standard pilot program where the owner of a housing accommodation shall be entitled to charge and collect a rent equal to the maximum amount that the rental assistance program prescribes for like housing accommodations, subject to rent reasonableness calculations. | In Committee | 03/26/2025 |
| S06921 | Provides that the voting age in New York be 16 years old. | In Committee | 03/26/2025 |
| S06936 | Expedites actions involving insurance claims for damages resulting from a state disaster emergency; sets time frames. | In Committee | 03/27/2025 |
| S06975 | Prohibits a court from denying class certification for purposes of class action lawsuits solely because the action involves governmental operations. | In Committee | 03/27/2025 |
| S07008 | Establishes minimum educational requirements of certain town and village justices. | In Committee | 03/28/2025 |
| S07009 | Provides for initiative and referendum and recall; empowers the electors with the ability to propose statutes and amendments to the constitution, approve or reject statutes or parts of statutes, and remove elective officers. | In Committee | 03/28/2025 |
| S07081 | Requires financial reports for real property acquired by the state, including any agencies and authorities, through eminent domain. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| S07124 | Provides additional qualified persons who may verify domestic violence for purposes of permitting the termination of residential lease by victims of domestic violence. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| S07154 | Designates September 11th Remembrance day as a public holiday. | In Committee | 04/02/2025 |
| S07176 | Requires justices of the supreme court, judges of the county court and judges of the court of claims, regularly sitting in a criminal term or in a term with criminal as well as civil jurisdiction to visit the correctional facility with the highest population of incarcerated individuals in the county in which such justice is appointed or elected within two years of such appointment or election and every two years thereafter; requires a report on the conditions of such correctional facility. | In Committee | 04/03/2025 |
| S07213 | Increases the number of supreme court justices in the thirteenth judicial district to ten. | In Committee | 04/04/2025 |
| S07232 | Grants immunity from liability for personal injury and property damage sustained by a crime victim upon the premises of a business or nonprofit while seeking assistance, except in the case of gross negligence. | In Committee | 04/04/2025 |
| S07234 | Bars completely the recovery of damages from the victim or a person acting on behalf of the victim for personal injury sustained by a person convicted of a crime when such injury occurred during the commission of such crime or while fleeing therefrom. | In Committee | 04/04/2025 |
| S07279 | Authorizes certified school psychologists to participate in the certification of certain persons as intellectually disabled or developmentally disabled; makes technical corrections to language. | Crossed Over | 04/08/2025 |
| S07290 | Requires class action compromise or settlement payments to be available to class members as a direct deposit into a bank account of a class member. | In Committee | 04/08/2025 |
| S07305 | Enacts the protect main street act to require a settlement conference prior to any further proceedings in a commercial eviction matter commenced on or after March 17, 2020 to address subjects related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
| S07329 | Designates March eighth as Women's day in the state of New York as a public holiday. | In Committee | 04/10/2025 |
| S07333 | Establishes the toxic victim justice act to extend the time frame to commence an action for certain victims who were exposed to a toxic substance until one year from the date of discovery of the toxic etiological cause or source of the injury or the date the plaintiff should have discovered the cause or source of the injury. | In Committee | 04/10/2025 |
| S07343 | Sets up rules and regulations for the operation of lease-hold retirement communities located in a county with a population of more than one million inhabitants that only borders one other county, to provide adequate housing for senior citizens wishing to retire and locate in a lease-hold retirement community; grants owners of homes in lease-hold retirement communities the right to sell their homes by methods common to sales of residential property; requires that owners of lease-hold retirement c | In Committee | 04/10/2025 |
| S07358 | Enacts the low impact landscaping rights act, preventing homeowners' associations from adopting or enforcing any rules or regulations that would effectively prohibit, or impose unreasonable limitations on, the installation or maintenance of low impact landscaping. | In Committee | 04/10/2025 |
| S07381 | Prohibits municipal corporations from permitting the use of publicly owned land for helicopter air transportation operated for the primary purpose of conducting sightseeing tours over New York city or conducting photography, videography, or similar production activities over New York city; relates to the use of certain heliports in the city of New York. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| S07413 | Requires notice to be provided ninety days prior to commencement of a foreclosure action by a homeowners' association or condominium board to enforce a lien for unpaid common charges, assessments, fines or fees. | In Committee | 04/15/2025 |
| S07416 | Enacts provisions for the execution of electronic wills including attestation, revocation and filing. | Crossed Over | 04/15/2025 |
| S07432 | Imposes restrictions on the usage of pesticides and outdoor sprinkler systems on certain homeowners associations. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S07433 | Prohibits employers from requiring certain conditions or preconditions of employment. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S07434 | Authorizes a lien against personal and real property of the owner of a commercial towing company for illegal and improper practices; creates personal liability for members of an LLC and certain corporate shareholders. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S07437 | Prohibits agreements between employers that directly restrict the current or future employment of any employee; allows for a cause of action against employers who engage in such agreements. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S07439 | Waives the biennial attorney registration fee for New York attorneys who are employed in a public service job. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S07440 | Authorizes the vacating of an arbitration award on the basis of arbitrator disregard of the law. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S07448 | Provides that possession of a condom or other reproductive or sexual health device may not be received in evidence in any trial, hearing or proceeding as evidence of conduct which would constitute an offense defined in article 230 of the penal law. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S07450 | Relates to the right of defendants in misdemeanor or felony cases to have such matter appear before a judge or justice admitted to practice law in New York; creates an automatic right to have a case reassigned to an attorney judge. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S07455 | Provides a mandatory retirement age for judges and justices. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S07458 | Relates to New York state's support of international debt relief initiatives for certain developing countries. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
| S07463 | Provides that an electronic marketplace provider shall be deemed to be a retailer for purposes of New York strict liability law and shall be strictly liable for all damages caused by defective products placed into the stream of commerce to the same extent that a retailer of that defective product would be liable. | In Committee | 04/17/2025 |
| S07467 | Increases the number of family court judges in the city of New York to seventy-two; provides for two additional family court judges for each of Westchester and Rockland counties and an additional family court judge for each of Erie and Niagara counties. | In Committee | 04/17/2025 |
| S07468 | Allows for the issuance of information subpoenas on behalf of small claims judgment creditors to be effective anywhere in the state. | In Committee | 04/17/2025 |
| S07475 | Allows an unrepresented party to transmit legal filings in eviction proceedings electronically; eliminates certain verification or notarization requirements. | In Committee | 04/17/2025 |
| S07479 | Prohibits money judgments arising from non-payment of facility items and services by a patient or patient guarantor that is brought by a facility; prohibits the enforcement of arbitration agreements or clauses with respect to non-payment of facility items and services by a patient or patient guarantor; relates to the collection of medical debt; requires transparency in hospital pricing. | In Committee | 04/17/2025 |
| S07491 | Relates to the statute of limitations for certain deed theft actions; revives such actions otherwise barred by the existing statute of limitations; grants trial preference to such actions; directs the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules for the timely adjudication of certain revived actions. | In Committee | 04/17/2025 |
| S07498 | Provides a mechanism for establishing the existence of a writing creating or amending a lifetime trust which was either lost or destroyed. | In Committee | 04/21/2025 |
| S07499 | Relates to the definition and term of real estate listing agreements; provides that no real estate broker shall be a party to a listing agreement if such agreement is for a period longer than two years; provides that a listing agreement shall not be enforceable if the agreement is for a period longer than two years. | In Committee | 04/21/2025 |
| S07541 | Requires that when a buyer enters into a contract to purchase a condominium or cooperative housing unit, the property management company or board of managers shall provide the buyer with records of the most recent inspection and engineering reports and permits for the subject property. | Crossed Over | 04/22/2025 |
| S07560 | Requires landlords of certain properties to furnish New York homes and community renewal with data pertaining to succession rights. | In Committee | 04/22/2025 |
| S07600 | Directs condominium and cooperative housing associations to complete capital reserve studies, including a thirty-year funding plan, in order to ensure that the condominium or cooperative housing association has adequate reserve funds available to repair or replace the assets located on the property that the association is obligated to maintain without the need to create any special assessment or loan obligation; specifies the content of the study; requires the study to be filed with the attorney | In Committee | 04/23/2025 |
| S07633 | Relates to actions and proceedings seeking an abatement of rent based on violations of the housing maintenance code, applicable housing standards, the building code, or the health code; relates to the number of housing judges assigned to certain actions. | Crossed Over | 04/24/2025 |
| S07647 | Enacts the "deed theft: proof of sale price act" requiring a statement of the full sales price of real property being conveyed and proof of such sales price to be submitted to the recording officer in order for such officer to record or accept for recording the conveyance of real property. | In Committee | 04/25/2025 |
| S07674 | Authorizes the part-time judge of the city court of Lackawanna to reside anywhere in Erie county. | In Committee | 04/29/2025 |
| S07676 | Allows for justices to reside in any town, village or city contained in whole or in part within the same assembly district as the court such justice serves or in an assembly district contiguous to such municipality where the court is located; authorizes towns and villages to require that any person who serves as a town or village justice be admitted to practice law in the state. | In Committee | 04/29/2025 |
| S07694 | Provides additional requirements for certain writings and records to be admissible under the business records hearsay exception. | Crossed Over | 04/30/2025 |
| S07695 | Provides that after an alternate juror has been substituted, the jury shall deliberate anew on all issues submitted to the jury at the outset of deliberations; exempts issues for which a verdict was already rendered. | In Committee | 04/30/2025 |
| S07696 | Provides that any person who has served as a state-paid judge or justice of a court of the unified court system or as a housing judge of the housing portion of the civil court of the city of New York, but who no longer holds any of such offices, may apply to be designated as a judicial hearing officer. | Crossed Over | 04/30/2025 |
| S07697 | Expands the civil jurisdiction of county courts to matters of up to fifty thousand dollars and district courts to matters of up to thirty-five thousand dollars. | In Committee | 04/30/2025 |
| S07721 | Establishes a private right of action for deed theft; provides that victims of deed theft may maintain an action against a deed thief or a bank or title insurance corporation that provides a loan or title insurance policy that assists in the commission of deed theft; authorizes victims of deed theft to recover treble damages and attorneys' fees; defines terms. | In Committee | 05/01/2025 |
| S07735 | Permits amendment of a claim or notice of intention to file a claim to correct jurisdictional pleading defects and the dismissal of a claim based upon claimant's failure to comply with jurisdictional pleading requirements. | Crossed Over | 05/02/2025 |
| S07736 | Empowers the state commission on judicial conduct to transmit its annual budget request to the governor for inclusion in the executive budget without revision. | In Committee | 05/02/2025 |
| S07746 | Eliminates the requirement that a driver's license, professional license or recreational license be suspended for failing to pay child support. | In Committee | 05/02/2025 |
| S07781 | Provides penalties when a landlord of a residential premises refuses to rent to a potential tenant on the basis that the potential tenant was involved in a past or pending landlord-tenant action or summary proceeding. | In Committee | 05/06/2025 |
| S07799 | Requires specific notice of mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts. | In Committee | 05/09/2025 |
| S07805 | Establishes Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as school holidays, with dates established by religious law and tradition; allows for school districts and municipalities with a population of less than fifty thousand to opt into the recognition of such holidays. | In Committee | 05/09/2025 |
| S07813 | Relates to gubernatorial and lieutenant-gubernatorial absences. | In Committee | 05/09/2025 |
| S07814 | Requires vacancies in the office of lieutenant-governor to be filled within certain timeframes and procedures. | In Committee | 05/09/2025 |
| S07815 | Relates to declaring inabilities of the governor, lieutenant-governor and acting governor; creates the committee on gubernatorial inability. | In Committee | 05/09/2025 |
| S07816 | Relates to the line of succession for the governor and lieutenant-governor in cases where they are impeached or unable to perform the duties of the office. | In Committee | 05/09/2025 |
| S07819 | Enacts "Karilyn's law"; provides that the court set the date for proceedings relating to family visitation under a guardianship petition for not more than ten days from the signing of the order to show cause; provides that visitation shall be a rebuttable presumption. | In Committee | 05/21/2025 |
| S07828 | Relates to items of appropriation. | In Committee | 05/09/2025 |
| S07860 | Authorizes a requirement of pro bono service as a condition of admission to the bar or attorney registration; exempts pro bono work performed pursuant to an agreement with the federal government if the federal government designates the recipients of the pro bono work or type or types or nature of such legal services; provides for the expiration of such provisions upon the expiration thereof. | Crossed Over | 05/09/2025 |
| S07882 | Prohibits a person or entity from knowingly or with reckless disregard facilitate an agreement between or among two or more residential rental property owners or managers to not compete with respect to residential rental dwelling units, including by operating or licensing a software, data analytics service, or algorithmic device that performs a coordinating function on behalf of or between and among such residential rental property owners or managers. | Passed | 05/13/2025 |
| S07893 | Requires landlords to provide tenants with a rent ledger containing a detailed record, including the amount, date and method of payment, of all financial transactions between such lessee and lessor, including rent payments, late fees, and security deposits. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| S07903 | Enacts the safe housing transfer for domestic violence victims act; ensures safe housing transfers for domestic violence victims in public and private housing; requires landlord response within seven days of a relocation request. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| S07982 | Eliminates daylight saving time. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
| S08013 | Provides that in order to present the claim for unjust conviction and imprisonment, claimant must establish by documentary evidence that: they has been convicted of one or more felonies or misdemeanors against the state and subsequently sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and has served all or any part of the sentence; and they have had the one or more felonies and misdemeanors dismissed with prejudice following serving all or part of the sentence; and their claim is not time-barred. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
| S08066 | Sets the definition of "principal" for the purposes of limits on amount of flood insurance required by a mortgagee and clarifies applicability of the state law relative to certain federal programs and requirements. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
| S08071 | Enacts the "avoiding vexatious overuse of impleading to delay (AVOID) act" which relates to time frames for certain court filings. | Crossed Over | 05/15/2025 |
| S08109 | Relates to the calculation of the homestead exemption amount; relates to the indexing of the homestead exemption for housing value changes; increases the amount of the motor vehicle exemption; limits the homestead exemption available to bankruptcy debtors to one exemption per household; increases the motor vehicle exemption available in bankruptcy proceedings. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
| S08118 | Prohibits utility service terminations in multiple dwellings; authorizes utility companies to seek a lien against such multiple dwelling for the amount of unpaid utility bills. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
| S08144 | Establishes term limits for the governor and lieutenant-governor of three terms in such office. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
| S08175 | Allows certain methods for service of process including by electronic means. | Crossed Over | 05/19/2025 |
| S08176 | Relates to the time limit for appeals in all categories of family court cases and the filing of objections to support magistrate determinations in child support, paternity and parentage proceedings in family court. | In Committee | 05/19/2025 |
| S08185 | Prohibits persons, firms, or corporations whose interests are adverse to that of a person who received personal injuries or death as a result of an action by such person, firm or corporation from negotiating any contracts or settlements releasing such person, firm or corporation from liability for the tortious or potentially tortious act within thirty days of such act. | Crossed Over | 05/19/2025 |
| S08186 | Provides that a foreign corporation's application for authority to do business in this state constitutes consent to jurisdiction of the courts of this state and a surrender of such application constitutes withdrawal of such consent. | In Committee | 05/20/2025 |
| S08187 | Extends the effectiveness of provisions providing for special proceedings to convey title to abandoned commercial and industrial real property to a city, town, or village. | In Committee | 05/20/2025 |
| S08192 | Directs the legislature to ensure that the number of judges and justices in districts and courts is sufficient; directs the chief administrator of the courts to report on the sufficiency of the number of judges and justices in each court and to make recommendations on such numbers. | In Committee | 05/20/2025 |
| S08195 | Expands the acceptable uses of affirmations in civil actions. | Crossed Over | 05/20/2025 |
| S08223 | Prohibits the use of a facial recognition system by a landlord on any residential premises. | In Committee | 05/23/2025 |
| S08236 | Extends the chief administrator of the courts' authority to allow referees to determine certain applications to a family court for an order of protection. | In Committee | 05/27/2025 |
| S08270 | Sets the effectiveness and duration of automatic orders in matrimonial actions. | In Committee | 05/28/2025 |
| S08294 | Requires a detailed determination in orders determining a motion, no longer up to a judge's discretion. | In Committee | 05/30/2025 |
| S08295 | Requires all letters granted to personal representatives contain restrictions on compromising any cause of action arising from the death of the decedent. | In Committee | 05/30/2025 |
| S08467 | Relates to the redistricting of congressional and state legislative districts and to redistricting in the event that another state has acted to determine the district lines for congressional offices more than once in less than ten years. | In Committee | 08/20/2025 |